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Morimoto just hammered his eel spike into his cutting board with the spine of his Nenox suji.

I just watched that last night! I forgot how great the old ones are.
I was watching IC America recently and noticed that Michael Symon actually uses good knives and seems to know how to swing them! His sashimi game is a bit weak, but I don't think it's the easiest thing to cut with a 240 Nenox ironwood gyuto.

Angler fish IS monk fish, just a different name for it. comes from the little lure on top of its head

actually you have it reversed. Monkfish is a type of angler fish. there are many different kinds of angler fish that are classified from the lure on the top of the head and monkfish is a particular species.

most of the time when they are fished, they just hack the head off and throw it back in the water saving the tail as that is about all that people want to eat in america. i managed to get one whole a few weeks back and let me tell you, they are dangerous looking and ugly as sin. they have like 3 rows of teeth and pointy things everywhere. i took a few pics, sorry about the quality.

It makes sense that the monk is a version of the angler, as the angler in the referenced episode did not quite look like the monks that I have seen. Very similar, butt different. In the program they said that 2/3 of the cost of the fish was for the liver.

Spike C
"The Buddha resides as comfortably in the circuits of a digital computer or the gears of a cycle transmission as he does at the top of a mountain."
Pirsig